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The Autosport F1 Podcast

5 Things To Know Before F1 This Weekend

The Autosport F1 Podcast

Motorsport Studios

News, Sports, Sports News

4.1742 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Martyn Lee is joined by Matt Kew who is now back in the UK and Alex Kalinauckas who stayed in Bahrain to cover the first race this weekend.   Today we look at five of the biggest questions we have before F1 goes racing this weekend in Bahrain:   Are Red Bull as quick as everyone is saying? What do Ferrari have to do in order to leapfrog Red Bull Why can nobody work out if Mercedes is looking good, bad or ugly? Who predicts Aston Martin could be a dark horse this year? How can McLaren dig themselves out of a pre-season funk? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This Sunday, the race for Premier League glory continues as Manchester City take on Liverpool at the Etihad.

0:06.3

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0:07.6

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0:11.3

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0:12.6

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0:15.7

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0:17.5

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0:21.7

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0:27.5

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0:30.2

From autosport.com and Autosport magazine, I'm Martin Lee.

0:33.8

This is the Autosport podcast.

0:39.3

Hello and welcome to Autosports. Look back at the biggest news stories to come out of this year's pre-season test. I'm Martin Lee, joined by Matt Kew back in the UK, just off a flight. And Alex Kalinakis, who is hanging out in Bahrain ahead of this weekend's opening round of the 2023 Formula One season.

0:56.9

Guys, a quick recap on the test. A really interesting three days, wasn't it? Alex, you're still there.

1:03.5

How did you find the test? Yeah, I'm sure you can tell I'm still in Bahrain with this lovely

1:06.9

nondescript background of my hotel room. Interesting tidbit, I did just go out to grab some

1:12.3

lunch and got rained on in the desert, which is definitely something I wasn't expecting. But yeah,

1:16.8

the test was pretty much as we were expecting, I think. Red Bull, looking like the dominant package,

1:22.4

a little bit of disappointment, Ferrari's clearly not quite as confident. And you know,

1:25.6

you really need those two teams together to have a good title battle and Mercedes was the big unknown so they're sort of suggesting

1:32.1

things are still got to come their way they've got to make changes to their car before they're

1:35.6

going to get back into title title fight consideration but yeah but the big stories really are further down

1:41.8

the grid I think the top three are sort of as you were.

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